Spring Async and Future

I had a pesky reporting job that was going to be slow no matter what sql-fu I was going to come up with.  I knew that Spring had asynchronous tasks which I had used before but they kinda sucked.  Lots of manual bean building and xml config nasties.  But behold, I came across a nice annotation I was not aware of:

@Async


And I was off to the races.

I'll update with my example later.  For now, I give you the best blog entry to be found as of yet:

http://blog.inflinx.com/2012/09/09/spring-async-and-future-report-generation-example/

Thanks, Random Thoughts.